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A wucai 'dragon' brush box and cover, Mark and period of Wanli | 明萬曆 五彩龍紋長方筆盒 《大明萬曆年製》款

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September 9, 11:30 AM GMT

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1,600,000 - 3,200,000 HKD

Lot Details

Description

of rectangular section with indented corners, the exterior painted with pairs of five-clawed dragons contesting a flaming pearl and writhing amidst lingzhi blooms, the interior with ruyi clouds and divided by a wall with a wavy top, the base inscribed with a vertical six-character reign mark within a cartouche, Japanese double wood box

31.8 by 12.5 by h. 10.6 cm

Mayuyama & Co., Ltd, Tokyo.

Nihon Kotoji Chugoku Kobijutsu Tenrankai [Grand Exhibition of Japanese Ancient Ceramics and Chinese Ancient Works of Art], Yamanaka & Co., Ltd, Osaka, 1934, cat. no. 311.

Chugoku Toji Meihin Ten Ise Korekushon no Shiho / Masterpieces of Chinese Ceramic Art Exhibition, Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art, Ishikawa, 2012, cat. no. 75.

Shika Meisai: Ise Korekushon no Meito / Imperial Colors: Peerless Chinese Porcelains from the Ise Collection, Gotoh Museum, Tokyo, 2015, cat. no. 30.

Porcelaine. Chefs-d'œuvre de la Collection Ise, Musée Guimet, Paris, 2017, cat. no. 53.

Ise Korekushon Sekai wo Miryoshita Chugokutoji / The Enchanting Chinese Ceramics from the Ise Collection, Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, 2017, cat. no. 65.

Toujikyokai Kaiin Gentei Dainikai Tokubetsu Kanshokai Ise collection Chugoku Toji To, Hokuso, Nanso, Gen, Min, Shin [Special Exhibition for the members of The Japan Ceramic Society, Part 2, Chinese porcelains from Ise Collection; Tang, Northern Song, Southern Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing], Japan Ceramic Society, Tokyo, 2019, unillustrated.

Mayuyama: Seventy Years, vol. 1, Tokyo, 1976, pl. 925.

Chugoku Toji Ise Korekushon / Chinese ceramics. The Ise collection, Tokyo, 2012, pp. 100-101.

Wanli covered brush boxes of this type were usually painted in blue and white or wucai palette; the cover was decorated with either the 'dragon and phoenix' design, or with a 'double dragon' design as seen on the present piece. For similar wucai examples, see a highly close box in Shanghai museum, despite dragon and phoenix on sides, illustrated by Lu Minghua in Mingdai guanyao ciqi [Imperial porcelains of Ming dynasty] , Shanghai, 2007, pl. 173, fig. 3-105; one in the Tokyo National Museum, illustrated in the Hirota Collection Catalogue, cat. no. 151; another illustrated in Masterpieces from Kurokawa Institute of Ancient Cultures, Hyogo, 1990, pl. 83.


來源

繭山龍泉堂,東京


展覽

《中国朝鮮古美術展観》,山中商會,大阪,1934年,編號311

《中国陶磁名品展―イセコレクションの至宝》,石川縣立美術館,石川,2012年,編號75

《瓷華明彩―イセコレクションの名陶》,五島美術館,東京,2015年,編號30 

《Porcelaine. Chefs-d'œuvre de la collection Ise》,吉美博物館,巴黎,2017年,編號53

《イセコレクション―世界を魅了した中国陶磁》,大阪市立東洋陶瓷美術館,大阪,2017年,編號65

《陶磁協会会員限定 第二回特別観賞会 イセコレクション 中国陶磁 唐、北宋、南宋、元、明、清》,日本陶磁協会,東京,2019年,沒載圖


出版

《龍泉集芳》,卷1,繭山龍泉堂,東京,1976年,圖版925

《中国陶磁―イセコレクション》,東京,2012年,頁100至101


此類萬曆朝蓋盒多以青花或五彩裝飾,盒蓋常繪「龍鳳呈祥」或如本品之「雙龍戲珠」紋樣。類似五彩筆盒比對數例:上海博物館藏一例紋飾極類(盒身飾龍鳳紋),形制類同,錄於陸明華,《明代官窯瓷器》,上海,2007年,頁173,圖3-105;東京國立博物館藏廣田松繁舊藏一例(藏品編號151);另見兵庫縣黑川古文化研究所藏一例,載於《黑川古文化研究所名品圖錄》,1990年,圖版83。